Photograph by A. W. Cutler 

 AN EXTRAORDINARY TOMBSTONE TO A TROUT 



Erected by Mrs. Keyte, of Fish Cottage, Blockley, Worcestershire. The stone recites the 

 story of the trout. Few people would believe this of any fish but a trout. 



the total tonnage — this being due to the 

 very heavy coal business from that port. 

 Cowes has 24,000 ships a year ; New- 

 castle, 13,000; Portsmouth, 15,000, and 

 Glasgow and Belfast 11,000 each. 



With the opening of the Clyde, Glas- 

 gow has been brought into direct commu- 

 nication with oversea lands. Dover, with 

 its great Admiralty harbor ; Chatham, 

 with its vast Royal Dockyard, where 

 7,000 workmen are employed even in nor- 

 mal times ; Middlesborough, with its great 

 shipbuilding industry ; Manchester, with 

 its splendid canal opening up an inland 

 city to world trade ; Belfast, with its fa- 

 mous shipbuilders ; Portsmouth and Ply- 

 mouth, on the south coast, with their 

 extensive port works ; Grimsby, Hull, and 

 Aberdeen, with the largest fishing fleets 

 in existence ; Newlyn and Brixham, 

 homes of the mackerel fisheries, and Mil- 

 ford and Fleetwood, the ports the hake 

 has made famous, are all places full of 



enterprise, which have been even more 

 active since the war began than they ever 

 were before a "submarine peril"' was 

 dreamed of. 



As has been said, the British Isles con- 

 tain no less than 119 ports available for 

 commerce, and practically all of them 

 have been developed for effective use. 



Even if the Germans have 500 sub- 

 marines constructed for the purposes of 

 this blockade, as is claimed, the total 

 makes an average of only about four sub- 

 marines available for blockading each 

 port. 



Submarines, with even the largest ra- 

 dius which any of these boats possess, are 

 dependent upon a convenient base or upon 

 the service rendered by a "mother ship." 

 They generally can carry a most limited 

 number of torpedoes, without which they 

 are ineffective, and in addition they are 

 severely handicapped by the very nature 

 of their operations. 



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